Protagon

Organizational playbooks for people and AI agents

Your expertise, organized into a playbook.

Protagon Prime turns your organization's mission, know-how and ways of working into playbooks that people and AI agents execute together: repeatable, inspectable and governable.

↓ Legal · Government · Insurance · Projects & Construction
evidence operation.pbk Purpose Knowledge Work Responsibility Evidence People AI agents SHARED WORKSPACE Draft Analysis Review

See it run

One method. Your industry's playbook.

Pick an industry and watch an approved playbook run: agents do the legwork, a person approves at the decision gate, and the case ends in a work product you can review.

operation.pbk
Playbook steps
Ready.

The problem

AI can act. Your organization still needs a method.

Calling an agent hundreds of times does not, by itself, create an organizational playbook. The knowledge lives in prompts, the decisions live in chat threads, and every new case starts from scratch.

At your desk

  • Ask an agent to research
  • Re-explain the context
  • Review and redirect its work
  • Repeat for the next case

Across your organization

  • Capture the approved method once
  • Make responsibilities explicit
  • Reuse the method for every case
  • Keep the evidence of execution

The playbook

What goes into a playbook

A .pbk playbook packages everything a recurring operation needs, so people and agents can run it the same way, every time.

01

Purpose

The mission, scope, intended result and definition of success.

02

Knowledge

Relevant expertise, sources, policies and available resources.

03

Work

Steps, inputs, outputs, dependencies and exceptions.

04

Responsibility

Human decisions, agent roles, tools and permissions.

05

Evidence

Checks, review requirements and the record needed to inspect a case.

From process to playbook

Describe your process. Protagon hires the agents and skills.

Write down how the work is done today, in plain language. Protagon Prime drafts a playbook, reuses agents and skills you already have, and proposes new ones. Nothing new runs until a person reviews it.

Example only: the result shown is fixed.
The proposed playbook, agents and skills appear here.

The operating model

How Protagon Prime works

The playbook defines the work. People and AI agents execute it in a shared workspace, and every case returns evidence you can review and learn from.

Evidence → review → a better next version Protagon Prime creates & manages Playbook .pbk defines work & review HI people · judgment MI AI agents · execution Workspace case · resources · tools work products

Human intelligence

  • Define the intended outcome
  • Contribute organizational expertise
  • Resolve important exceptions
  • Review and authorize decisions

Machine intelligence

  • Gather and organize evidence
  • Draft, calculate and analyze
  • Use approved tools only
  • Check criteria and revise work

Metrics

Measured on our demo runs

Protagon Prime records every step, finding and model call, so each run reports what it cost and what it produced. These are the figures from our own demo runs across four industries.

Across 4 industriesUnder $3model cost per case, in every demo run

Legal, government, insurance, projects. Four playbooks, from 3 to 9 steps, each ending in a reviewable work product.

Model cost ranged from $0.03 to $2.72 per run. Every model call is priced and rolled up by step and by case.

Approval gates are part of the run. Where a run took hours, the wall clock includes time spent waiting for a person to approve.

Legal

NDA review

$0.07model cost per run
  • 3 steps
  • ~5 min end to end
  • 8-item clause checklist
  • 3 missing clauses flagged
Government

Government application review

$1.86–$2.72model cost per run
  • 9 steps
  • 22 rule findings
  • Wall clock in hours, including waits at human approval gates
Insurance

Insurance claim review

$0.03model cost per run
  • 7 steps
  • ~2.5 min end to end
Projects & Construction

PMO portfolio health review

$0.10model cost per run
  • 3 projects reviewed
  • 20 findings raised
  • ~2h 48m wall clock, including waits at human approval gates

Measured on synthetic demo cases; model cost only, excludes human review time. No client data. Comparisons with manual work elsewhere on this page are illustrative, not measured.

Governance

You stay in control of every case

Governance is part of the playbook, not an add-on. Decide who approves, which models run, and where your data lives.

Human approval gates

The playbook pauses at defined decisions until the named role reviews and approves.

Full audit trail

Every input, action, output, model call and review decision is recorded for each run.

Model control

Choose approved models per step: cloud or local. Agents use approved tools only.

Canadian hosting

Keep data in Canada, or self-host Protagon Prime in your own cloud or on-premise.

No training on your data

Your cases, documents and playbooks are not used to train models.

Permissions & SSO

Versioned, immutable playbooks, role-based permissions and single sign-on (OIDC).

Ask us for our security and data-handling documentation during your demo.

Principles

Built to be trusted with real work

Repeatable

Reuse the approved method for the next case. Only the facts change.

Executable

Assign each step to the right person or a capable agent with approved tools.

Inspectable

See every input, action, output, model call and review decision.

Governable

Versioned playbooks, human decision gates, role-based permissions and SSO.

Improvable

Each run writes a reflection that proposes the next, better version.

Who it is for

Built for work that repeats and has to be right

Protagon Prime is not for one-off questions. It fits any team whose core operation runs again and again, draws on specialist knowledge, and needs someone to sign off on the result.

A strong fit when the work is

RecurringThe same operation runs dozens or hundreds of times a year.
Multi-stepSeveral steps, handoffs and people are involved.
Knowledge-heavyIt depends on expertise, policies and sources.
AccountableSomeone must review, approve and answer for it.
Sectors we serveProfessional servicesHigher education & researchPublic sectorFinancial services & insuranceHealthcare & life sciencesEngineering & manufacturing

The scorecard we track with every pilot

  • First-pass acceptance rate
  • Rework cycles per case
  • Cycle time per case
  • Human review time
  • Cost per case
  • Cases per process owner

Measured on every case

Protagon Prime records what happened in each run (quality, time, cost and scale), so improvements are measured, not guessed.

Getting started

Start with one recurring operation

Choose

Pick one operation that matters to your mission, and its process owner.

Capture

Turn your expertise, rules and review points into a playbook.

Test

Run it on approved cases and measure against the scorecard.

Scale

Publish the version that works and reuse it across the organization.

Which mission should we make executable first?

Tell us about one recurring operation. We will show you what its playbook could look like.

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